Copying is very difficult especially if you want to be the first! How can you copy from the second best and be first? So that makes copying difficult. However you could take parts of many and look original…then you need not defend your copying! Warren Buffet made most of his money by staying and investing […]
I got a call this morning from a reader saying – My wife looked at my portfolio and said ‘You have been generating a CAGR of 0.36% in the past 3 years – why are you in equities at all?’ So he said : If i had kept this money in a bank FD, I […]
Ha there could not have been a more misleading title..but it was perhaps the best way to attract you! ‘Subra Sir, How is Tata Steel ?’ My take: “Darling I do not know whether you : Want to be a vendor to Tata Steel? Want to takeover Tata Steel? Want to be a customer […]
Let me make it very clear, I love traders! They contributed to our profits when we were brokers. And traders would have trader friends, which meant they would get us more and more clients. Sadly Indian markets do not have research figures, but my guess is ‘about 95% or more’ or Retail unprepared traders would […]
Almost every second ad today urges you to trade. Equities, Debt, Money Market, Forex, Commodities, why even Real Estate flipping! Fairly obvious to these invites there are risks involved – and obviously only jokers like me look at risk! Here are a few things that your broker forgot to tell you: 1. Leverage is […]
So here we are on 17th June, 2013….wondering what to do in the markets? Well, well God yesterday was father’s day, help me God!! So, what’s a stock market investor’s best response to dropping stock prices? First, forget about rationalizing and explaining (or listening to other people explain) why stocks are falling. It’s a […]
Is there any similarity between running and investing…well a few for sure. Investing is normally for a long term – as is running. The shorter form is called trading and among runners it is called sprinting. So when a runner says he is a short distance runner – it means he runs 100m (sprint) to […]